July 14, 1918 – Four persons are killed and 28 injured when a North Shore Electric railroad train strikes a truck carrying a Chicago picnic party at the north entrance to Fort Sheridan. The General Manager of the North Shore line said the driver of the truck failed to obey the warning signals at the railroad crossing, saying, “There is a clear view of the track for more than a mile at the point of the accident. The motorman was sounding his whistle and the wig-wag danger signal was in operation. The motorman slowed down to ten miles an hour as he approached the crossing because he had a regular stop to make. The truck was hit by the coach and toppled into the ditch. I am told the deaths and injuries were not caused by the actual collision, but in the fall into the ditch.” [Chicago Daily Tribune, July 15, 1918]
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